But it's not just internal trade relations that are at stake. The European press has already made note of the fact that Russia's expansion of its ban to include fresh vegetables — including those already on movado boldshelves — from the entire European Union will benefit the country's own domestic farmers at the start of their growing season. Today the European Commission contacted Russian authorities today to express its displeasure with a reaction it calls "disproportionate" and more meetings between the two parties are expected next week.None of this will be resolved, of course, while the culprit remains unknown. Today, German scientists expanded their testing to include milk, meat, and even bottled water in their search for the origins of an infection that, yesterday alone, sent 120 more people to the hospital. "It's hard to reassure people," says European Commission spokesperson Waite, "when we still don't know what the cause is."No one is sure, however, that those actions will work. "It's incredibly complicated to see how Spain could take Germany to court," says Roger Waite, spokesman for the European agriculture commissioner, Decian Ciolos. "Who would bring the suit? Under what law? It's not at all clear what would happen if it were Spain vs. Germany, except that it would take years. And the Spanish producers who are suffering right now don't have years." See more health news in Healthland.In the meantime, there promises to be plenty of accusations to go around. Some Spanish growers see nefarious intent in Germany's original accusation. "Is this a hidden attack on our agricultural trade?" asks Campo de Almería's García. "Let's just say we growers are well accustomed to Germany's efforts to kick us out of the market."Nor is it immediately clear whether the European Union as a whole has a legal framework — to say nothing of the will — to compensate farmers. Next week, agriculture experts from the E.U.'s member states will meet to try to determine the extent of the financial damage and whether there is a basis to initiate reparations. Even if there is, notes Waite, the earliest that producers could see any shop online 2011 payment would be October 16 — which is a long way away for farms that, with the cucumber season in southern Spain drawing to a close, have just lost the better part of their crop.
As CNN showed the image on the screen, a puzzled Wolf Blitzer pressed the congressman: “You would know if this was your underpants.”“I appreciate you continuing to flash that at me,” Weiner said in a tone that made it clear he didn’t. Weiner insisted again that the episode was “a prank” and “a hoax.” But his responses — and lack of them — assured that the controversy would continue power balance usa . He said he has hired a lawyer and a security firm, which he did not name, to investigate the incident. But he did not take the matter to legal authorities, he said, because he thought they had better things to do.In a moment that will probably go down in the annals of how not to handle a crisis, Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) insisted again on Wednesday that he was not the one who sent a suggestive photo from his Twitter account — but he told NBC News that “I can’t say with certitude” whether the now-famous image is of his own crotch.Meanwhile, Gennette Nicole Cordova, the 21-year-old Seattle area student to whom the tweet was addressed, wrote in the New York Daily News that she has never met the congressman. She added that “there have never been any inappropriate exchanges between Anthony Weiner and myself, including the tweet/picture in question, which had apparently been deleted before it reached me.”Most puzzling to many veterans of Washington imbroglios is why Weiner would not clarify whether he is indeed the person in the photo, which is presumably something he would have a pretty good idea about.His answer ranks “somewhere below ‘no controlling legal authority’ and above ‘wide stance,’” said Democratic crisis-management specialist Chris Lehane.Weiner gave a series of television interviews in an attempt to tamp down the furor that began over the weekend when a waist-down photograph of a man in his underwear appeared briefly on his Twitter shop online 2011 page. The tweet, which Weiner said he deleted when he saw it, was addressed to a college student who follows him on the social-networking site.The questions regarding the incident continued into a fourth day, fueled in part by the fact that the controversy is perfect early-summer fodder for cable news and that it involves a lawmaker who is both an intense partisan and an adept user of new media.
Saleh's command over Sana is shrinking. The west of the capital lies under the control of the 1st Armored Division, whose commander, Gen. Ali Mohsen Ahmar, defected in mid-March after 52 antigovernment protesters were shot dead by snipers. Saleh maintains control of the southern neighborhood of Sabaeen, home to the presidential palace.Yemen's state-run news prada handbags 2011 agency denied accusations that the violence in Taiz was part of an organized crackdown against protesters, stating that "armed groups" from the opposition coalition had attacked a security station and kidnapped soldiers.The fighting in Sana centered around the northern district of Hasaba, where Ahmar lives. Black smoke filled the sky. Most of the neighborhood was deserted, but some Hasaba residents refused to leave their homes, fearing looters and armed men would take over their properties."This morning was the most intense fighting we've seen yet," said one local resident brandishing an AK-47, as he stayed to defend his property. "If I leave I will have no home to come back to. They will destroy everything."The neighborhood had turned into a battle zone after Saleh refused to sign a regionally backed agreement to leave office after four months of pro-democracy protests. Shortly after plans for the signing collapsed, Saleh's troops traded fire with fighters loyal to Ahmar, the head of the powerful Hashid tribe, which counts Saleh as a member. The two sides battled all last week before agreeing to a cease-fire Saturday.But Tuesday, Ahmar's tribesmen took control of the Interior Ministry, the Water Ministry, the ruling General People's Congress party building and Hasaba's police station.Yemen's capital and other cities again erupted into violent chaos Tuesday after a cease-fire collapsed between forces loyal to President Ali Abdullah Saleh and tribal fighters, who seized at least four government buildings.The heavy fighting in Sana began late Monday evening as Saleh's Republican Guard troops and supporters of his rival tribal chief Sadiq Ahmar pounded each other in fresh shop online 2011 clashes. Mortar-shell explosions and gunfire ripped the air early Tuesday.South of Sana, security forces opened fire on demonstrators in the city of Taiz, bringing the death toll there since Sunday to 50, according to reports received by the United Nations. Yemen's opposition put the death toll at 100. In the southern coastal town of Zinjibar, government officials said five soldiers were killed in an ambush by Islamic militants.